Steel wool holder



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STEEL WOOL HOLDER Original Filed Aug. 29, 1954 INVENTOR Patented July 19, 1938' STATES STEEL WOOL HOLDER Ignace J. Spiewak, New York, N. Y.

Refiled for abandoned application Serial No.

741,971, August 29, April 10, 1936, Serial 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in article holding devices, particularly to a new and. improved holder for steel wool or the like firmly holding the steel wool during its use, as for instance described in my abandoned application,

Serial No. 741,97 1, of which this is a re-file.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a steel wool holder which is composed of two co-o-perating parts, an inner movable one open at one end to the closed end of which a handle is fastened, and an outer, stationary part to which the inner ends of a plurality of suitably curved pins or prongs are secured, which during the rotation of the outer movable part upon the inner stationary part, are projected through the suitable slots in the wall of the inner stationary part into the body of steel wool contained therein, while said prongs return into their position of rest between both parts upon the rotation of the outer part in the opposite direction.

Another object of my invention is the provision of a steel wool holder of comparatively simple and inexpensive construction, yet durable and highly efiicient in use.

These and other objects and advantages of my invention will become more fully known as the description thereof proceeds, and will then be specifically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure;

Fig. 1 is a bottom plan view of a steel wool holder constructed according to my invention, partly filled with steel wool, and partly in section showing the holder prongs inactive.

3 Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of a holder, Figure 1, partly in section and showing the holder prongs in their operative position.

As illustrated in Figures 1 to 3, the steel wool holder constructed according to my invention comprises a handle ID of suitable material and shape, preferably made of wood attached to the impressed center of the top H of an inner, preferably circular, movable part or casing I3, by 45 means of screws or the like l2, said casing being open at its bottom to receive the steel wool l8. 1 An outer, stationary substantially circular casing ll surrounds the casing I3 and has an opening in its top for the connection of the handle ill with the inner casing [3. The said inner casing has the center of its top impressed to an extent of the thickness of the material of the outer casing, so when assembled, the impressed center extends through the opening of outer casing to its surface level to be fastened to the han- 1934. This application No. 73,811

dle, permitting free rotation of the inner casing. While the tops of both casings rest upon each other firmly, their walls are suitably spaced to accommodate the steel wool holding means.

This means comprises curved holder pins or prongs l5 which are held at their inner bended ends upwardly in the suitable eyelet members IE on the inner Wall of the outer stationary casing II, while their curved needle ends rest parallelly between the walls of the inner and the outer casings, and are adapted to be projected through suitably arranged longitudinal slots I! in the side wall of the inner movable casing I 3,. when the casing I3 is turned or rotated by means of its casing and the handle attached thereto is held, while the inner casing is rotated by means of its I handle relatively to the outer casing carrying the pins thus bringing thepoints' of the curved pins into the openings of the-inner casing, and a further rotation will thrust and swing the curved prongs or pins into the body of steel wool and firmly grip and hold the same. A backward rotation of the inner casing will draw back the prongs through the slots in the inner casing into the space between the same and outer casing, so that steel wool can be removed and replaced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- V ent is:

1. A holder for steel wool and like articles comprising an inner, movable, substantially circular casing, open at one end and having a pluralityof slots in its wall and adapted to receive and hold the steel wool, and an outer, open-ended, stationary casing concentrically arranged about said inner casing, a handle attached to the closed end of said inner casing for rotating the same within the stationary casing, and a plurality of curved prongs movably secured at one end. to the stationary casing and adapted to extend through the slots in the movable casing upon its rotation to engage the steel wool and hold the same firmly within the inner casing.

2. A holder for steel wool comprising a plurality of substantially circular, nested casings movable relative to one another, one of said cas ings perforated and adapted to receive a supply of steel wool, a plurality of curved prongs on another of said casings adapted to be passed through the perforations of said casing: containing the steel wool by the displacement of one casing against the other, to enter and hold the V a IGNACE J. SPIEWAK. 

